Improvement in clothes-driers



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` i Letters Patent No. 107,763, dated September 27, v1870.v y

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t The Schedule referred tdinfthesefetters tent and-making part of thesam Be it known `that LILEWIS Gomme, of 4the city and county of SanFI-ancisco and StateofGalifornia',

have invented anlmprovd Clothes-Rack and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which, acccmpaniesgand forms ypartl of this specication, is a description of y my" invention Sufficient to enable those;4 skilled in the `art to pif'ac- 'lhislinventionI relates detailslof construction ot' a portable, `adjstable rack on which tohang clothing and other articlcsltc be aired or dried, thel'ack being maderso' that/itfcan be aiiixed to any vertical object,

' 'and removedftherefi'omwithout the-nseof tools, 'so

that'it may `beremoved fromjsightwhen not in use; and."`` V The-invention'consists in making theparts of the rack, by which itiis attaehedtoa wall or partition, in

" pieces separate from each other, each slotted, as hereinafter described, andunited by an axis for the racky bars to swing laterallyrnpon,` made asa screw by whichfthe said parts may be drawn together, so as to keep the rack-bars from 1 swinging too'freely.

My inventionais )shown intheaccompanying per-A `spective view, in2which` a is` is the top, andlb, the bottom piece, between which the 'lach-barstc4 are clamped bythe 'screwthreadedaxiscl. u I

The pieces a and blareright angular pieces or knees,

and are preferablycastings. l ,A The piece "a hasta llongslot in the upright arm of the `knecysaid slot being open at the top. The piece b'has a similar-but shorter'slot in its upright arm,

`open `at the bottom, the hole in the piece b for the 'piece a, being smooth. z

In jtheobject to which the rack is to be' attached axis d being nut-threaded,`land the axis holein the "are fixed tivo screws or pins c and j', and the rack is applied tol them hy first slipping the slotted piece a,

l overlthescrew e in lan angular direction, and then bringing the-rack in a vertical position, and allowing it to'slide down sothat the slot Ain b will embrace the The rack-bars being then moved laterally into any desired position or' relation, are clampedV by turning the screw-threaded axis d," such tnrning bringing the 'pieces a and b toward each other, so that-however much the rack-'bars shrink orwear, they can always be clamped suiiciently to'keep them from havinga Vfree swinging movement. v i i I olaim- `The described rack, as made, combined with its rack-bars, and having separate pieces a and b, with open-ended slots, as set forth, and united with each btherby the screw-threaded axis d, and not-threaded I piece, so as to clampthe rack-barsat will in any position. y

LEWIS CUTTING.

Witnesses:

`J. B. CROSBY, y p

C; WARREN BROWN. 

